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Bach - Flute Sonatas Vol. 1

SOLOMON, ASHLEY - traversoCHARLSTON, TERENCE - harpsichord

Bach

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$13.01

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BACH FLUTE SONATAS - A Personal View
Much has been written about JS Bachs flute sonatas in the past, with opinions from numerous scholars casting doubts on the authenticity of a number of these works. In selecting the sonatas for this first recording, I was keen to choose those that would give the listener the opportunity to hear the most varied collection of compositions within Bachs flute sonata style. In so doing, I have included at least one work which scholars of Bach have not been able to prove was definitely by him.

Ashley Solomon has performed as a soloist throughout Europe, the Americas, the Far East and Australia. He has recorded numerous programmes for radio and since 1993 has recorded for the Dutch company Channel Classics with Florilegium, the chamber ensemble that he co-founded in 1991. Born in 1968, Ashley won a recorder and flute scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in 1986. He gained a first class honours music degree in 1989, and the Diploma of Advanced Studies in 1991, the same year that he won first prize in the Moeck International Recorder Competition. The majority of his time is spent performing with Florilegium, who have now made ten recordings for Channel Classics and have performed at many major music festivals throughout the world, as well as being Ensemble in Residence at the Wigmore Hall in London since 1998.
Ashley is a frequent guest principal flautist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra when they perform on classical instruments, and in 1998 he was made an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. Since 1994 has held the position of professor at the Royal College of Music. He was made an Honorary RCM in 2000.

Terence Charlston was born in Lancashire, England, and studied the piano, organ and harpsichord in Oxford and London. He pursues a busy career, especially in the field of baroque chamber music, and he performs regularly with some of Britains leading ensembles including Florilegium. He has been a member of London Baroque since 1995. He is professor of harpsichord and basso continuo at the Royal Academy of Music where, as Head of Early Music (1995-7), he innovated the new Historical Performance Practice course. He also teaches at the Neuberg Oesterwoche fur Alte Musik.

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As durable as granite, as clear as crystal. These discs are an indispensable collection. () It's as durable and as rock-hard as granite, withstanding any style of performance from the most rigorously authentic to the freest of jazz treatments. () (() The musicians are precise in phrasing and ensemble and Solomon plays with marvellous flexibility () Sunday Star Times
() his rendition is gracious, meditatively beautiful, wanderingly toughtful () () Very ethereal indeed and perfect fare for a quiet nights music. () The flying Inkpot
(WWW) () A technical tour de force for solo flute () () Performing at about a tone lower than modern pitch to suit his instrument, Solomon excels at the mellow and velvety and delights in the expressive potential of the breathy and wispy () () A thoroughly enjoayble disc. Roll on Volume 2. International Record Review:
() Solomons sound is beautiful-round and clean, he has obviously given the sonatas a lot of thought and he performs them with intelligence, but also with heart and guts, A winning combination.() Fanfare
Exceptional playing on a superb instrument () This is an impressive and enjoyable cd that easily bears repeated listening () () genuine musical experience () Gramophone
() Hij weet een prachtige ronde en frisse toon te blazen, die helemaa doet vergeten dat deze oude fluiten ook nog wel eens duf en stoffig kunnen klinken. () () Zwoele klanken en parelende virtuositeit, toch nog even een plekje vrijmaken () Luister
() De Fluitsonatas zijn bij Ashley in uitstekende handen, jammer dat Bach er niet meer heeft geschreven () Tijdschrift Oude Muziek

Format

Normal PCM CD

Running time

70:35:00

Year of release

2000

Number of cd's

1

Number of cd's:

1

Year of release:

2000

Running time:

70:35:00

Quotes:

As durable as granite, as clear as crystal. These discs are an indispensable collection. () It's as durable and as rock-hard as granite, withstanding any style of performance from the most rigorously authentic to the freest of jazz treatments. () (() The musicians are precise in phrasing and ensemble and Solomon plays with marvellous flexibility () Sunday Star Times

(WWW) () A technical tour de force for solo flute () () Performing at about a tone lower than modern pitch to suit his instrument, Solomon excels at the mellow and velvety and delights in the expressive potential of the breathy and wispy () () A thoroughly enjoayble disc. Roll on Volume 2. International Record Review:

() Solomons sound is beautiful-round and clean, he has obviously given the sonatas a lot of thought and he performs them with intelligence, but also with heart and guts, A winning combination.() Fanfare

Exceptional playing on a superb instrument () This is an impressive and enjoyable cd that easily bears repeated listening () () genuine musical experience () Gramophone